[yocto] [PATCH][meta-raspberrypi] linux-raspberrypi_dev: don't use AUTOREV

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Paul Barker <pbarker at toganlabs.com> wrote:
>> On 30 May 2017 5:08 p.m., "Khem Raj" <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> * use latest revision in rpi-4.11.y branch
>>> * using AUTOREV causes bitbake to run git ls-remote on the github.com
>>> repository in order
>>>   to convert AUTOREV to currently latest SRCREV even when you don't use
>>> linux-raspberrypi_dev
>>>   at all, just happen to have meta-raspberrypi layer in your
>>> bblayers.conf, that's bad for
>>>   people who want to be able to build without network access (completely
>>> from premirror)
>>>
>>
>> These branches get rebased often so locking SRCREV caused another
>> kind of problem. what we can do is.
>>
>> 1. Let user like you override the SRCREC via a bbappend or conf file.
>> so change the assignment to ?=
>> 2. Delete the recipe completely. We lose some of upstream testing.
>>
>> We should be able to skip the recipe if it isn't selected as the preferred
>> version and/or provider of "virtual/kernel". I'm out at the minute so can't
>> look at it now but will try to take a look later this week.
>
> The linux-yocto-dev.bb recipe contains an example of doing that.
>

ah perfect. Thats what we need here

http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb?h=master#n28

please rename the recipe to be linux-raspberrypi-dev.bb and add the magic
above and send a v2

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